Motivational Quotes

Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Time

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

28.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin